[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi":3,"chapter-the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-40":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Lady's Butler: I Reincarnated To Serve The Villainess",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},725452,965,"Chapter 40: A Corrupted","the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-40",40,"\u003Cp>\"D-damn it, I thought she was supposed to be an E-rank!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intruder, now clutching his missing arm, stuttered out as he did what he was best known for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hiding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was still within the hall with that monster who was currently searching for him, and he realized one thing,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their Intel was completely wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no way in hell that she was an E-rank, hell, she wasn’t even D-rank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to at least be C or B rank, considering how easily it had been for her to completely freeze his arm without him being able to react.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’I have to get out of here,’ he thought to himself as he used his spirit to search for an exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If there was another thing he was good at, it was identifying battles he couldn’t win, and this was one of those.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air around him was getting colder and it was getting harder to circulate his mana by the second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There,\" he muttered as he found the same window he had walked in from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only problem was avoiding that monster until he got to safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using his wind spirit’s senses again, he tried to locate Renelle, on to realize that she was....\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large ice spike slammed directly into the position he was hiding, fortunately, he had moved quickly enough to avoid the attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pillar the attack hit was immediately encased in ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you done hiding?\" Renelle’s voice came from behind him as she calmly walked towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was small smile on her face as she stopped a short distance away from the intruder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was something strange about this situation, that explosion of ice was loud enough for the guards to hear, so why hadn’t they rushed in?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intruder looked towards the door and back to her, before realizing that she might’ve done something to prevent sound from escaping the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something only someone confident would do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in this case, it was going to work against her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haha,\" it started out as a low chuckle before he let out a fully crazed laughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Renelle, on the other hand, calmly waited for him to stop laughing, something that didn’t seem to be happening any time soon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let out a sigh as she extended her hand, pointing her finger towards him. The moment she did, a small ice spike launched from it, heading towards the Intruder’s head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She thought she’d get the chance to test how much she had grown from that breakthrough, but it wouldn’t be fun if the training dummy lost its mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she decided to just end it there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, just before the the spike could reach him, it suddenly stopped mid air before falling harmlessly to his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Remember this Lady Ardent,\" the intruder finally stopped laughing, now with a serious expression on his face, \"I didn’t want to use this, but you forced my hand.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly summoned his spirit again, before grabbing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then revealed something that was now clutched in his fist, a small orb with dark red swirling energy within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This will kill you,\" he muttered as he looked at the spirit, \"but this is the Master’s will, that’s why he gifted it to me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second, he suddenly forced the orb through his spirit’s beak and before it could get the chance to struggle,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swallowed it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Renelle froze as she immediately recognized what he was doing, it was something she had seen quite a few times in her previous life and she knew one thing for certain,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The intruder suddenly fell to his knees, letting out a scream as red glowing cracks started appearing on his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What came out of its mouth sounded neither human nor natural, instead, it seemed like multiple voices screaming at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Goodbye,\" Renelle muttered as a giant ice spike formed above the intruder before falling towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire hall was soon covered in a white icy mist as the attack landed, causing the ground to tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Renelle remained still as her eyes narrowed, trying to see if she had dealt with the nuance before it fully transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suddenly jumped to the side, barely avoiding a claw aiming for her head only due to her instincts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I guess not,\" She said as the mist cleared up, revealing the intruder, or rather, the creature he had become.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cloak was now completely off, revealing a skin that had lost all its color, turning completely black with red glowing cracks that running all across it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes were now red glowing orbs, and his mouth, now perpetually open, was dripping with saliva.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A corrupted,\" she muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know the exact details, but she had encountered quite a few that had that orb which forced a merging between a spirit and it’s contractor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result was this....a corrupted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One that had the mana of a human and the element of the absorbed spirit, a disgusting act even to the previous Renelle who was willing to freeze all of Avera just to be by the prince’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without warning, the creature launched itself forward again, moving a lot faster than previous, and before one could blink, it was in front of Renelle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It launched an attack that was too close for her to dodge, fortunately, she was fast enough to create an ice sword and using it to block the creature’s claws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force of the attack launched her backwards, but she quickly regained her footing, and just in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature swiped its claw at the air, and although nothing was visible, Renelle dodged to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A second later, large slashes in the shape of the corrupted’s claw appeared on the wall behind where she previously stood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A wind attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing its attack miss, the corrupted dashed forward again but just before its claws could reach her,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Freeze.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",999,"2026-06-02T10:56:10.487Z",1,"novelbin.me","38c60207c37fd9bb0a17a1764c4bd3556f224d2f333bd864520acceb570031cc","the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-82","the-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-chapter-81",146,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-lady-s-butler-i-reincarnated-to-serve-the-vi-cover.jpg"]